Improvement in brooches



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY A. CHURCH, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO HIM- SELF AND G. M. CHURCH, OF NEW YORK CITY.

IMPROVEMENT IN BROOCHES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 151,844, dated June 9, 187A; application tiled April 1,1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, HENRY A. CHURCH, of the city and county of Providence, and State vof' Rhode Island, have invented a new and a brooch, a neck-chain, a guard or watchchain, and certain ornaments, all of which are detachable from the brooch, and are secured thereto by the fastening of the pinton gue in such a manner th at the simple brooch only may be worn, or either of the other parts therewith, or all together, at the pleasure of the wearer.

In the drawing, B is the brooch, of any plain or ornamental design. C is the neckchain attached to the hooks I I on the back of the brooch. P P are pendants or ornaments on the hooks FF, and G is the guard or watch-chain on the hook D, all of which hooks extend from the back of the brooch, across the line of the pin-tongue H, in AYsuch a manner as that the pin-tongue presents a bar or stop to prevent either of said parts from unhooking, and so securing the several features thus combined from separa-tion and loss.

Of the combination thus formed, the simple brooch B may be Worn, or with only the pendants P ,P added,'or, instead of a brooch, it may serve as a neck ornament, suspended by the chain C around the neck, or without the neck-chain, but with a watch-chain as a chatelaine, or with the neck and guard chain both, as a modern style of watch-chain. The form and ornaments of this article of jewelry are intended to be varied .and changed, as is usually the case in this manufacture.

Having described my invention, I claim- As a new article of manufacture the combination, with a brooch, of a neck-chain, watchchain, and pendent ornaments, substantially in the ina-nner and for the purpose herein described.

' HENRY A. CHURCH. Titnesscs IsAAC A. BRowNELL, J. T. PECKEAM. 

